It was only 72 hours from the moment that Brian from AE Creative came up with this crazy idea.
Since then, 8 local artists have gifted a piece of art in support of the Noosa Power project and we have 2,000 printed sharecards (on carbon neutral paper from 100% recycled post-consumer waste). Steve Hall from Sunprint made it happen at lightning speed and in the most environmentally friendly way.
I am so humbled by how quickly the community came together to create this. Some of the artists had not heard of me before, others are dear friends. And every single one that I asked about participating, answered with a resounding Yes.
We are hoping that you have the same Yes for supporting this project. There are three important steps:
- Sign the Action Declaration on the right to allow us to negotiate a bulk purchase of renewable energy.
- Add your name and a note to the sharecard and
- Pass it on to a friend or colleague who you think would also support the project.
I know it will be hard to let go of these beautiful pieces of art, but they are for a bigger purpose: to bring our local community together.
And if you are the lucky last person and all the lines are already filled out, please take a photo and post to facebook.com/noosapower.
Below are all the artists’ contacts, so you can further support our community by connecting with them.
Jandamarra Cadd
Sharing
With his vibrant and expressive portraitures, Jandamarra’s art is emotive, insightful and is bridging the storytelling divide between Aboriginal and mainstream Australia like nothing else on offer.
Scott Denholm
Surrender
Surrender is the first painting of Scott’s Elevation series to feature the Sunshine Coast – this birds-eye-view piece captures the surf at Tea Tree Bay and Dolphin Point lookout in Noosa National Park. Surrender was awarded the People’s Choice Award in the Queensland Regional Art Awards in September 2017.
Pam Eldridge
Life Force
My favourite place – standing on the rocks where the headland meets the sea: feeling the rhythms of the ocean, the ebb and flow of tides, the sunrises and sunsets, birds, sea creatures, people.. So much life! It fills me up.
Natalie Ing
The Wave
For me art is nature. Whether it is painting, writing, music, play or dance .. real inspiration comes without thought. When I am in that state I start to appreciate all of life around me. The patterns on the tide, the way a new shoot curls, light through trees or birds singing in the morning. I feel connected to them expressing their natural flow and I feel happy that I know that place too.
Life is really amazing.
Dinah Wakefield
Luminous Ocean
Luminous Ocean is about the relationship between the sun and the ocean. The light from the sun pours into the ocean every moment of every day, an inexhaustible source of life and vitality. The oceans receive that light with gratitude and convert the energy into the myriad forms of life that sustain this planet.
Why would anyone think it was ok to risk that?
It is impossible for me to imagine painting without the beauty of nature surrounding me. From the Banksia trees in my garden studio to the ocean across the valley, it is this beauty that I seek to capture in my paintings.
Pam Walpole
Pam finds inspiration from the natural world, whether it be coastal or the stark interior.
Her work starts with something that has caught her eye. Often events like fire, flood, storms or man’s intervention are the instigator with the drama that goes with it.
Jane Welsh
Nymphaea Embrace
Jane is passionate about caring for the plant and believes it is our responsibility to be good stewards for future generations of humans and all life forms.
Her studio is solar passive, insulated and powered by solar panels. Whilst using artist quality materials, she strives to keep waste to a minimum and deals with it responsibly, and she uses recycled materials where possible. The gardens surrounding her studio are being nurtured organically and she is working to optimise the life in the soil and build up its carbon.
WrenZen
aka Wrenna K Hubbard
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Sea Lord
From the interactive ceramic sculpture series, Afterlife?
The empty spaces within WrenZen’s interactive, biomorphic sculptures invite us to step out of the ordinary role of observer and become physically immersed within the art.
Compelled to play, connect with each other and “dress up” in these wearable sculptures, we are triggered to get up close to our human obsession with fashion, while also considering our mortal reliance upon the health of our ecosystems.
Also a performance artist, utilising her body as a paintbrush, WrenZen creates large scale improvised paintings and durational artworks through dance and movement. Elixir~The Last Drop, her recent video performance, was created in honour of the clean water, often taken for granted in developed nations